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One of the many tourist attactions in Marrakesh, the open food market. Credit: Vladimir Pcholkin Remains of bombed cafe a constant reminder of extremist threat

Djemaa-el-Fna square in Marrakesh teems with people two years after deadly terrorist act

Italian businessman Marcello Di Finizio displays a banner to protest against austerity measures, on the dome of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi Millions of Italians sliding into poverty, say reports

National statistics agency claims 8.6 million people are in ‘serious economic difficulty’

Firefighters extinguish a burning car, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Photograph: Reuters Three nights’ rioting in deprived areas of Stockholm shocks placid Sweden

Hundreds of young people torch cars and attack police in capital’s immigrant areas

Men lay a floral tribute close to the scene where a man was murdered in Woolwich. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA Wire ‘We have done this because Muslims are dying every day. . . We will never stop ’
  • UK
  • Foreign staff
  • May 23, 2013, 01:00

Film of Woolwich atrocity sees apparent perpetrators explain their actions

A Lebanese army soldier walks on a patrol after being in the northern port city of Tripoli. Photograph: Omar Ibrahim/Reuters Troops push into strategic rebel-held Syrian town

At least 10 killed since Sunday in battle for Qusayr near Lebanese border

British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande, adjust their earpieces during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP Hollande and Cameron alter position on Syria solution

Leaders step back from previous commitment to arm Syrian rebels

A woman and children walk by debris left after a tornado tore through the area, in Moore, Oklahoma. Photograph: Christopher Gregory/The New York Times Search continues for survivors of Oklahoma tornado
  • US
  • May 23, 2013, 01:00

At least 24 people, including 10 children, one a four-month-old baby, were killed and 240 others injured

Brick layers work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Giza governorate in Egypt. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters EU dissatisfied at delays returning frozen assets to north African countries

Assets of former Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian regimes frozen during Arab Spring

Former Georgian prime minister Ivane Merabishvili (C) listens to his lawyer during a preliminary hearing of his case. Photograph: Irakli Gedenidze Georgia under EU scrutiny after more allies of president are arrested

Political conflict since the Georgian Dream party defeated the United National Movement last October

Supporters of immigration reform cheer after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, on Capitol Hill. Photograph: Drew Angerer/The New York Times US immigration reform moves a step closer to being passed in Senate

Sweeping changes to US immigration laws will include 10,500 visas a year for Irish workers

Syrian opposition figure Rafif Jouejati. Photograph: Aidan Crawley “We will continue to say No to the Assad government”

Non-violent Syrian opposition network now backs call for military support

Ed Miliband told Google staff directly that paying less than 1 per cent tax on billions of UK-generated revenue is not acceptable Google chief defends company’s corporate tax payments

Labour leader Ed Miliband warns internet giant that UK tax bill is unacceptable

A police forensics officer investigates the scene after a man was murdered in Woolich, London this afternoon. Photograph: Reuters British soldier murdered in London terrorist attack
  • UK
  • May 22, 2013, 16:15

Victim attacked with machete and reportedly beheaded before police shot his two attackers

Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. FBI kills Florida man with suspected ties to Boston bomb suspect
  • US
  • May 22, 2013, 13:58

NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative

A car set on fire burns, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Sweden’s capital has been hit by some of its worst riots in years after youths scorched dozens of cars, attacked a police station and threw stones at rescue services in its poor immigrant suburbs for a third night running. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix/Reuters Youths riot in Sweden for third night

Protests follow fatal shooting of elderly man by police

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, left, and Senator Chuck Schumer, centre, shake hands with supporters after the committee approved legislation to overhaul US immigration laws, in Washington, last night. Photograph: Drew Angerer/The New York Times Senate panel approves major overhaul of US immigration
  • US
  • May 22, 2013, 11:27

Obama praises move but Bill faces robust debate in full Senate next month

A police photographer at the scene of the 1982 car bomb in Rotton Row, Hyde Park, London. The blast killed and injured a party of cavalrymen on their way to the guard changing ceremony in Whitehall, after an IRA bomb exploded as the Household Cavalry was passing. Photograph: PA News/PA Wire Donegal man in court over 1982 Hyde Park bombing
  • UK
  • May 22, 2013, 11:23

John Anthony Downey will appear again at the Old Bailey on Friday

Danielle Stephan holds boyfriend Thomas Layton as they pause between salvaging through the remains of a family member’s home in Moore, Oklahoma, on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters Oklahoma rescuers wind down search for survivors
  • US
  • May 22, 2013, 09:49

Mile-wide tornado plowed across an Oklahoma City suburb, killing 24 people

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